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Massive centralization is helping Fediverse (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A bit paradoxal but it looks that all central platform (twitter, reddit, facebook...) are helping the spread of Fediverse. Recently we saw the impact with Twitter on Mastodon, myself I've discovered Lemmy even if I wasn't a reddit user. And before that Facebook first spread friendica and diaspora. It looks next step will be around Youtube where Google try to lock more and more its user.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For me, the way Fediverse is set up just highlighted the dangers of centralization, at least for social media. It's hard to have all your eggs in a basket controlled by a single entity that has virtually unlimited power to do what it wants with it. Fediverse isn't perfect, but in some aspects it's just better.